At AdventHealth, The Leapfrog Group’s hospital safety grades aren’t just another nice-to-have recognition or rating — it’s a core part of the clinical agenda, which is reflected in 32 of the health system’s 42 eligible hospitals receiving an “A” grade …
New York City-based NYU Langone physicians successfully completed the world’s first whole eye transplant for a survivor of a 7,200-volt electrical accident.
Patient experience measures declined across five categories for the second year in a row, according to The Leapfrog Group’s fall safety grades report which evaluates more than 3,000 hospitals nationwide.
Patient experience scores across the U.S. worsened for the second year in a row, though contributing factors may be improving, according to data from The Leapfrog Group’s fall safety grades.
Earlier this year, a team at Northwestern Medicine used breast implants to save the life of a 34-year-old man in need of a double lung transplant.
An Arizona man was arrested after allegedly stealing an ambulance with four firefighters and a patient inside, Telemundo Arizona reported Nov. 6.
Two AdventHealth hospitals have been recognized for a “patient falls bootcamp” effort that cut incidents by 33%, with some units improving as much as 50% from last year.
Earlier this year, researchers published results from the first study to quantify the burden of misdiagnoses in the U.S., which found nearly 800,000 people are permanently disabled or die from diagnostic errors.
More than 50% of patients experiencing long COVID-19 did not improve after 18 months, according to new study findings that included more than 800 patients.
The world’s second patient transplanted with a genetically modified pig heart has died, the University of Maryland School of Medicine said Oct. 31.
